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Specifying and Composing Non-functional Requirements in Model-Based Development

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Software Composition (SC 2009)

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Non-functional requirements encompass important design concerns such as schedulability, security, and communication constraints. In model-based development they non-locally impact admissible platform-mappings and design spaces. In this paper we present a novel and formal approach for specifying non-functional requirements as con straint-systems over the space of models. Our approach, based on structured logic programming, allows interacting requirements to be specified independently from each other and composed together. Correct-by- construction operators eliminate some composition mistakes. Our approach is implemented in our formal modeling tool FORMULA, which can analyze the impacts of interacting non-functional requirements on platform mappings and design spaces.

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Jackson, E.K., Seifert, D., Dahlweid, M., Santen, T., Bjørner, N., Schulte, W. (2009). Specifying and Composing Non-functional Requirements in Model-Based Development. In: Bergel, A., Fabry, J. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02655-3_7

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